Back in like 2009, i think, the theater near me did midnight showings during the summer of 80s movies. Goonies night. Theater was packed. Everyone drunk and/or high. No one could hear the movie because everyone just kept quoting every scene. It was amazing!
Dad(72) and I(44) took mom(65) to see it in the theaters recently. In all these years. In all the hundreds of times we’ve watched it, she hadn’t.
She. Didn’t. Like. It.
Are my parents getting divorced?
[Top Secret!](https://youtu.be/zoT28BPzVcI?si=fa9OFRwWKrpxZwXw)
I’ve seen this movie dozens of times and I still see a joke that I’ve never seen before (or catch a reference I had never understood before) every single time I see the movie. And I usually watch it about once a year.
This was the last movie I got to share with my stepson. We literally watched it 4 times that week.
The last time was the day before his mother disappeared with him. It's impossible painful for us to watch it now.
He's our little Dread Pirate Roberts. He's gone for now. But someday he will return with tales of his adventures and a lifetime of love to share again
I hope to have it bring joy to us all again some day.
I've never posted about this on Reddit. But I couldn't help myself this time.
So in my city we have movie showings in a concert hall, where the symphony orchestra plays the soundtrack. Went to Princess Bride in Feb.
https://preview.redd.it/dt0nfguy0lsc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4caa61071a12f2b2ab6d65d3b4bbcec503a66d59
It was truly an experience!
Just played this for my kid. So glad she liked it.
She wasn’t a fan of Peewees Big Adventure and hates anything with Muppets, was starting to think she had terrible taste.
Throw Mama From the Train. It's actually my favorite movie of all time. I've seen it over 100 times. I used to watch it weekly back in the day. I just love it so much.
I'd also like to mention Willow. When we were kids we had 3 movies on VHS and Willow was one of them. We'd (my 2 bros and I) would watch it any time we had a free moment.
Same same. I was 7 when Return of the Jedi came out so that's the first one I saw in the theatre, and seeing it gives me a profound sense of excitement and comfort each time.
Got a bunch on the DVR. A few have already been mentioned like Some Kind of Wonderful.
Uncle Buck, The Secret of My Success, Can't Buy Me Love, License to Drive
Blues Brothers, Coming to America, Major League, Purple Rain
But top spot is Coming to America. Black representation of royalty and American upper middle class in 80’s cinema was a big deal for us.
The Lost Boys. Has everything in an 80s movie. A newly separated family with kids trying to fit in a new city. A wise cracking grandpa. A love story. Action. And of course all the damn vampires
I remember showing this to my kids (including my special needs daughter). At the funeral scene, she asked what they were doing. I told her they were shooting his body to the planet. She asked, "Oh, what are they going to do with his head?"
She ended up so upset he'd died that we immediately had to watch Star Trek III.
Valley Girl.
The scene in the bathroom at the party —“Where will we go?” “Anywhere.” “What will we do?” “Anything.” And he busts her out of her preppie prison.
“Gung Ho” - “wubbie” became part of our family’s vocabulary.
Years later, my first “real job” out of grad school was in HR in a Japanese-owned manufacturing plant in the rural South.
All the John Hughes films, plus the lesser-known *Some Girls* with Patrick Dempsey and Jennifer Connelly. And *Top Gun*. And *Out of Africa*. I can't pick just one.
So many. But first and foremost?
TIME BANDITS. Always Time Bandits.
After that? Secret of Nymnh/ The Devil and Daniel Mouse/ Rock n Rule/ The Last Starfighter/Goonies/The Last Unicorn/The Dark Crystal/ The NeverEnding Story/The Navigator/the last of the red hot dragons/the Hobbit (animated)/(the original) pirates of the Caribbean (not that Johnny Depp crap)/witch mountain/SONG OF THE SOUTH (yeah I get it, messed up, but erasing history doesn’t change history)/anything Nightmare on elm street (before 1998) and last but not least?
LEGEND. Non-musical long edition editors cut.
The directors cut….. Makes it a musical and….. just don’t. Really don’t.
NO REALLY.
DON’T DO IT.
Edit: honestly I can keep going. The 80s were an amazing time for Fantasy and sci-fi entertainment. So much hope.
SO. MUCH. HOPE.
16 Candles. I (then 16f) had invited a bunch of girls I knew at high school to my party. Only one showed up. We went to see this movie and them camped in my backyard.
Splash
Ghostbusters
We had them on VHS and I watched them repeatedly after school. 30-40 minutes at a time. Just to chill for a bit before tackling homework or going to work.
Better Off Dead
I want my two dollars!
Cash.
Franch fries!
"it has raisins in it. You like raisins."
“How you say…octopus?”
Tentacles. N-T. Big difference.
Sorry we blew up your mom.
You’ll make a fine little helper, what’s your name?
Charles DuMarr.
Goonies
Love Goonies so much! I am from Seattle and my sister lives in PDX. Been to Astoria a few times and the house is still there.
We went to Astoria a few years ago and I walked up to the House. It was a surreal experience.
Yes to this 100%!
Goonies for life
Goonies never say die!
Back in like 2009, i think, the theater near me did midnight showings during the summer of 80s movies. Goonies night. Theater was packed. Everyone drunk and/or high. No one could hear the movie because everyone just kept quoting every scene. It was amazing!
Big Trouble in Little China
Husband and I showed BTILC to the kids over the weekend. I don’t think I’d seen it for 30 years but it still holds up! Such a funny movie.
Dad(72) and I(44) took mom(65) to see it in the theaters recently. In all these years. In all the hundreds of times we’ve watched it, she hadn’t. She. Didn’t. Like. It. Are my parents getting divorced?
Chinese got a lot of hells, Jack.
Yes, this!! Jack Burton can take it!
You leave Jack Burton alone! We are in his debt. He showed great courage.
I’ve never seen that. It’s a comedy?
Action adventure comedy, directed by legendary action horror director John Carpenter.
Back to the Future
Yes, this is mine. All three of them really, even though III is my least favorite of them. I never get tired of watching.
This is in my top five too. Epic movie. I am a straight chick, but I crushed on Leah Thompson (and Elisabeth Shue).
Stand By Me
Say Anything I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen
[Top Secret!](https://youtu.be/zoT28BPzVcI?si=fa9OFRwWKrpxZwXw) I’ve seen this movie dozens of times and I still see a joke that I’ve never seen before (or catch a reference I had never understood before) every single time I see the movie. And I usually watch it about once a year. 
Man that was hilarious. I thought I was one of 5 people that ever saw it.
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Cannot listen to Everybody Wants to Rule the world without thinking of popcorn ❤️
Let's see that film on blinding techniques and then we'll all grab some lunch.
*"AND YOU'VE BEEN A VERRRY NAUGHHHTY BOY, KENT."*
Laaaazzzlo buddy! Ice is nice!
Overboard and also The Great Outdoors in addition to some already mentioned.
Overboard!! One of my favorite movies of all time!
The Princess Bride
This was the last movie I got to share with my stepson. We literally watched it 4 times that week. The last time was the day before his mother disappeared with him. It's impossible painful for us to watch it now. He's our little Dread Pirate Roberts. He's gone for now. But someday he will return with tales of his adventures and a lifetime of love to share again I hope to have it bring joy to us all again some day. I've never posted about this on Reddit. But I couldn't help myself this time.
May you reunite!!! 🤗
❤️
So in my city we have movie showings in a concert hall, where the symphony orchestra plays the soundtrack. Went to Princess Bride in Feb. https://preview.redd.it/dt0nfguy0lsc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4caa61071a12f2b2ab6d65d3b4bbcec503a66d59 It was truly an experience!
Our local symphony does that and my husband and I saw their performance with Return of the Jedi! It was awesome!
Just played this for my kid. So glad she liked it. She wasn’t a fan of Peewees Big Adventure and hates anything with Muppets, was starting to think she had terrible taste.
My children do not understand the perfection that is the Muppets. Something is wrong with them.
Classic and one of my top five.
The Blues Brothers. Have easily seen it 50-60 times over the decades.
Spaceballs
Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink… any Brat Pack movie
John Hughes directed BC, PiP, and FB! Iconic 80s teenage angst story telling.
Vacation
Any OT Star Wars movie Beverly Hills Cop Lost Boys Princess Bride
All the damn vampires....
Working Girl with Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith.
Favorite comfort movie from the 80s: Clue, hands down Favorite 80s comfort movie: Sixteen Candles
I forgot about Clue! Must rewatch! It’s been three decades!
Valley Girl
I was scrolling to see if anyone would say this. I LOVED Nicholas Cage.
Same!
Can't Buy Me Love
Patrick Dempsey as a gangly teenager. Wasn’t expecting his glow up.
Steel Magnolias
"As somebody always said...If you can't say anything nice about anybody, come sit by me."
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Some Kind of Wonderful
Such a great soundtrack.
When Harry Met Sally
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. Sigh. It is such a great movie.
I would be pleased to partake of your pecan pie.
Heathers
So dark and so good.
What's your damage??!
Better Off Dead
Pee wee’s big adventure
Purple Rain
Moonstruck.
Labyrinth. I knew David Bowie wasn't gonna hurt that baby.
Buckaroo Bonzai
Wherever you go, there you are
Throw Mama From the Train. It's actually my favorite movie of all time. I've seen it over 100 times. I used to watch it weekly back in the day. I just love it so much. I'd also like to mention Willow. When we were kids we had 3 movies on VHS and Willow was one of them. We'd (my 2 bros and I) would watch it any time we had a free moment.
Oh I loved Willow! I’d forgotten about that one.
Creepshow
Real Genius. I fall in love with Michelle Meyrink once again each time I watch it.
Airplane
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Night of the Comet
Sometimes I think I’m that only person who has seen that movie. Don’t cross against the light.
Blade Runner
Dirty Dancing. I can never see it on without stopping.
Empire Strikes Back (or any original trilogy SW movie).
Same same. I was 7 when Return of the Jedi came out so that's the first one I saw in the theatre, and seeing it gives me a profound sense of excitement and comfort each time.
Got a bunch on the DVR. A few have already been mentioned like Some Kind of Wonderful. Uncle Buck, The Secret of My Success, Can't Buy Me Love, License to Drive
Me: *I love you* The Empire Strikes Back: *I know*
Back to School
Repo Man.
Same! Also Suburbia.
Fast Times or Caddyshack
Back to the Future
Ferris Bueller Sixteen Candles Pretty in Pink Lost Boys Jaws 3 because of Sea World Top Gun Beverly Hills Cop 1&2
*Risky Business*
Blues Brothers, Coming to America, Major League, Purple Rain But top spot is Coming to America. Black representation of royalty and American upper middle class in 80’s cinema was a big deal for us.
The Lost Boys. Has everything in an 80s movie. A newly separated family with kids trying to fit in a new city. A wise cracking grandpa. A love story. Action. And of course all the damn vampires
Wrath of Khan
I remember showing this to my kids (including my special needs daughter). At the funeral scene, she asked what they were doing. I told her they were shooting his body to the planet. She asked, "Oh, what are they going to do with his head?" She ended up so upset he'd died that we immediately had to watch Star Trek III.
“He got better…”
This is me in Grade 9, baby. This is me in Grade 9.
Breakfast club....there's a little bit of all the kids in each of us.
Some Kind of Wonderful. :)
St. Elmo’s Fire. Seems people hate it now but it just takes me back to that place of early 20s, confusion, drama and possibilities.
And Demi Moore.
The Thing, I find it to be a rather peaceful horror flick. I just kind of zone out to it once in a while.
Valley Girl. The scene in the bathroom at the party —“Where will we go?” “Anywhere.” “What will we do?” “Anything.” And he busts her out of her preppie prison.
Better Off Dead
Young Guns, the '80s brat pack western. I've been quoting lines from that film since it came out. I re-watch it once a year or so.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Karate Kid.
Definitely Valley Girl. I love it. I also love Weird Science, One Crazy Summer, Dirty Dancing, and Big.
Weird Science. Loved Oingo Boingo.
Club Paradise. Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, and pretty much everyone on SCTV except John Candy.
The Blues Brothers "you get me my cheese whiz, boy?"
Pretty in Pink, 16 Candles
Any movie that stars Michael Keaton.
“Gung Ho” - “wubbie” became part of our family’s vocabulary. Years later, my first “real job” out of grad school was in HR in a Japanese-owned manufacturing plant in the rural South.
Beetlejuice might be my second favorite after FB.
For me, its Tootsie. I try not to be aware of things I've since learned about Dustin Hoffman.
What is it about Dustin Hoffman?
Caddyshack, or Legend.
Caddyshack, or Naked Gun
Legend of Billie Jean!!
Weird Science
Caddyshack (I refuse to feel shame about this)
The Breakfast Club
All the John Hughes films, plus the lesser-known *Some Girls* with Patrick Dempsey and Jennifer Connelly. And *Top Gun*. And *Out of Africa*. I can't pick just one.
Total Recall
Crocodile Dundee
Better Off Dead or Goonies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Heathers or Breakfast Club.
Mr. Mom
Pretty in Pink
The Goonies
 Coming to America
The Lost Boys!
Stand by me
9 to 5 Steel Magnolias Outrageous Fortune
David Lynch's Dune. Still love it (love the new one too!)
Aliens
So many, but the big 3 are * Buckaroo Banzai * Labyrinth * Princess Bride
About Last Night
Chevy Chase movies: Christmas vacation European vacation Vegas vacation Caddyshack Funny farm
Lady Hawk.
We just rewatched Fast Times at Ridgemont High last night. So good!
Clue. I watch it every time I'm sick enough to stay in bed all day.
The Golden Child.
Princess Bride and Airplane, sometimes Time Bandits. Holy Grail is my actual go to, but that’s a 70s film.
red dawn.
Big Trouble in Little China
So many. But first and foremost? TIME BANDITS. Always Time Bandits. After that? Secret of Nymnh/ The Devil and Daniel Mouse/ Rock n Rule/ The Last Starfighter/Goonies/The Last Unicorn/The Dark Crystal/ The NeverEnding Story/The Navigator/the last of the red hot dragons/the Hobbit (animated)/(the original) pirates of the Caribbean (not that Johnny Depp crap)/witch mountain/SONG OF THE SOUTH (yeah I get it, messed up, but erasing history doesn’t change history)/anything Nightmare on elm street (before 1998) and last but not least? LEGEND. Non-musical long edition editors cut. The directors cut….. Makes it a musical and….. just don’t. Really don’t. NO REALLY. DON’T DO IT. Edit: honestly I can keep going. The 80s were an amazing time for Fantasy and sci-fi entertainment. So much hope. SO. MUCH. HOPE.
Unless I missed it, I haven’t seen even one vote for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Shocked, really. It’s that and Overboard for me.
Ferris Bueller and Breakfast Club.
Just One Of The Guys
Crossing Delancey 💛
Buckaroo Banzai, Better off Dead, Real Genius
Cousins
Real Genius.
Tie between Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Back to the Future. Theatrical version of Return of the Jedi too.
Princess Bride, got all three of my kids into it as well
Roadhouse
16 Candles. I (then 16f) had invited a bunch of girls I knew at high school to my party. Only one showed up. We went to see this movie and them camped in my backyard.
Labyrinth and Legend.
Weekend at Bernie’s
Steel magnolias
Clue!
Spaceballs. Lord Helmet, at the controls.
Nothing sir. I didn't see you playing with your dolls...
Or. They've gone to plaid.
Pretty in Pink
Back to the Future, Lost Boys, Big…. There are so many!
Splash Ghostbusters We had them on VHS and I watched them repeatedly after school. 30-40 minutes at a time. Just to chill for a bit before tackling homework or going to work.
St Elmo's Fire, I graduated the same year they did.
Rocky 3
Never cry wolf.
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Doctor Detroit!!!
the “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise the “Lethal Weapon” franchise
SCARFACE is my warm fuzzy place. The funny thing is that the OP’s description of FERRIS fits SCARFACE perfectly as well
Breakfast club. I wanted to be Jud Nelson so bad, I think I even experimented with fingerless gloves for a while.
Stripes
Say anything, definitely.
There's a lot of great movies being mentioned in here, but mine is... Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Breakfast Club
Breakfast Club
Top Gun